Photography

Rick Poynor|Essays

Herbert Spencer and The Book of Numbers

The Book of Numbers by Herbert and Mafalda Spencer was aimed at children, but its intriguing visual approach is more “photobook” than “schoolbook.”

Michael Bierut|Audio

S3E11: Melissa Harris

Melissa Harris is editor at large of the Aperture Foundation and the author of A Wild Life: A Visual Biography of Photographer Michael Nichols.

Sean Adams|Evidence

Fake News: Blow Up

We are conditioned to understand that a photograph is an honest record of an object, time, and place.

Sean Adams|Evidence

Gateway Drug of Dessau

The typography and graphic design at the Bauhaus represent the most religious allegiance to Modernism. But, it is the photography at the Bauhaus that serves as a gateway drug.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Looking Down: An Interview with Photographer Bryon Darby

Photos of grids and airplanes.

Melissa Harris|Books

A Wild Life

PERMISSION EMPHATICALLY DENIED. The story of a National Geographic photographer’s journey documenting mountain gorillas in Rwanda. An excerpt from A Wild Life: A Visual Biography of Photographer Michael Nichols.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Tuning In

Early television call signs

Jade Doskow|Books

Lost Utopias

Lost Utopias documents the remains of World’s Fair sites.

Antonio Alcalá|Essays

Looking Harlem in the Eye

Designer Antonio Alcalá explains his strategy for creating the exhibition catalogue for the Harlem Heroes: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten exhibit at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum

VII|VII Observations

Women's Day, Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, 2004

Photo by Alexandra Boulat

VII|VII Observations

Uncertain Journeys, Lesbos, Greece, 2015

I felt conflicted about photographing the refugees as they arrived in Greece.

VII|VII Observations

U.S. Marines, Fallujah, Iraq, 2004

Combat engulfed the forces’ advance, as insurgents engaged them with sniper fire and RPGs in one of the fiercest battles yet